(February 28, 2013 at 8:00 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(February 28, 2013 at 7:33 pm)Baalzebutt Wrote: Don't you think this is a little bit of an ironic explaination relative to your sig block?Not at all. God is the something on which all other things that come into being are contingent. The sig block is just a silly way of expressing the philosophical truth that "Out of nothing, nothing comes."
(February 28, 2013 at 7:33 pm)Baalzebutt Wrote: If god can be eternal, why can't the universe be eternal?Because it's not. It had a beginning called the 'Big Bang'.
No, the Big Bang does not show that the mass/energy of the universe can not be eternal. It may be cyclic.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.